Reps. Greg Stanton and Yassamin Ansari drew a rhetorical line against a Republican-led government budget that doesn’t prevent widespread loss of health insurance coverage.

Neither of the Arizona Democrats from the Phoenix area urged a shutdown of the federal government during remarks Sept. 23 at the newest Valle del Sol community health center in Phoenix.

But Stanton and Ansari also held out for a funding plan that reverses GOP legislation that is expected to begin cutting access to Medicaid services in 2027, and want to avert the loss of insurance subsidies for lower-income Americans starting in January.

President Donald Trump canceled his scheduled Sept. 25 meeting with the Democratic leaders in the House and Senate, calling their budget demands “unserious and ridiculous.”

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